The effect of filter type on BER of WCDMA-UMTS mobile radio systems

Author

Kikkert, Cornelis Jan

Author_Institution

James Cook Univ., Townsville, QLD

fYear

2008

fDate

Aug. 31 2008-Sept. 3 2008

Firstpage

966

Lastpage

969

Abstract

This paper investigates the Bit Error Rates (BER) obtained using different filter types for RF front ends for WCDMA-UMTS mobile radio systems. Most Base Stations use Chebychev or Cauer-Chebychev filters. This paper compares the use of Bessel, Butterworth and Chebychev filters for use as single channel filters in a WCDMA-UMTS radio system. It is shown that even though Bessel filters pass more adjacent channel interference, they result in a significantly lower Bit Error Rate (BER) and insertion loss than the other filter types.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Butterworth filters; Chebyshev filters; code division multiple access; error statistics; mobile radio; Bessel filters; Butterworth filters; Cauer-Chebychev filters; Chebychev filters; RF front ends; WCDMA-UMTS; bit error rates; insertion loss; mobile radio systems; single channel filters; Band pass filters; Base stations; Bit error rate; Computer simulation; Land mobile radio; Multiaccess communication; Protection; RF signals; Radio frequency; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2008. ICECS 2008. 15th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Julien´s

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2181-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2182-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2008.4675016

Filename

4675016